The National tribune., 1887-03-10

thinks good part Of the surplus in the Urea
sury could easily be disposed Of il the Govern
ment would fulfill its promises to the soldiers.
John NicOdemus thinks the equalization of
bOunties matter Of justice TO the soldiers, and
one that should receive early attention.
Michael Fitzgerald, Co. A, 10th H., Sc. Croix
Falls Wis, was much pleased with the open
letter of The NATIONAL tribune to President
Cleveland. He says that if the next Congress
does not do justice to the soldiers the people
will elect one that will.
George B. Morgan, Orange, N. j., sends a
clipping from the Newark IN J.) EUeninq NeWs
urging the President to veto the Dependent
Pension Bill.
James Lewis, New Haven, Conn, incloses
several clippings from the New York World
opposing pension measures before Congress, and
eritieizes severely the sentiments expressed by
the editor of that paper.
c. ID. Webster, Goth Ohio battery address
not giyen,) thinks there is good reason for COM
plant of the injustice done by the law increas-
ing the pensions of those who have lost limbs,
but not those of many who are suffering from
disability from other causes. He thinks the
increase is fairly due TO those who have lost
limbs, but there is equal reason for giving it to
the other class.
]. @. Mettlen, Sergeant, Co. III, SD ILL.,, and
Co. A, Sth ILL.,, Yansburg, Kan, was glad to see
a communication from Comrade Smith, of his
regiment. He had concluded the members of
the 63d who survived the war were all dead.
He fully agrees with all the comrades who
write of the duty of the Government to pro-
vide for the disabled soldiers.
J. Fraser, Co. @, 18th N. Y, Erie Kan, COM
plains of the long delay in the adjudication of
claims in the Pension Office. He says it APP
pears to be the policy Of the Government to
throw all possible obstacles in the way of the
soldiers, and 10 prescribe such regulations as to
make it impossible for them to prove their
claims.
as. P. c." Willow Springs, Mo-, cannot I'M
derstand why the 800 bounty has never been
paid to those enlisted in April and May, 1861,
for three years and were discharged to accept
promotion. He says they are clearly entitled
to it, and he knows no reason why the Govern
ment should cheat them out of it. He says
there is over q months pay due him under the
remuster law of 1884. He has sent in all the
proof and has been notified of his remuster.
But all the same he cannot get his pay. He
wonders if Uncle Sam is short of clerks or in
want of money.
Fred. Rufe, Chamois, Mo-. thinks the pension
laws do great injustice to the class of soldiers
who served during the war but had no hospital
records, and now, after 20 years, finding them
selves broken down and disabled, they are
unable to furnish the required proof to support
their claim. He says there are thousands of
them VINO are IN the nlgneSb degree deserving
of the consideration of the Government.
John w. Boil, Co. II, 64th ILL.,, Berne, ". Y,
| thinks the country can never fully pay the
debt it owes to the soldiers. He thinks it would
,, be better if the money which is being used to
| pay the National debt so rapidly should be
appropriated to discharge the obligations to the
! soldiers and let a part of the debt go over for
| future generations to pay.
| N. b. Fisher, Co. III, 37th Ohio, Des Moines
Iowa, denOunces as contemplate the language
of certain New York paper that the soldiers
now receiving pensions were of no account be-
| fore the war, during the war, nor after the
war" He thinks that most of the pensioners
! are men with clean records who fully deserve
/ all they get. He thinks that the Government
is trying to do justice to the soldiers and that
as a rule the soldier has fair field to prove his
disabilities, and when proven to receive fair
rating.
"Yeritas," Princeton. Mo-, says that every
day confirms the belief that in the death oil
Gen. Logan the soldiers lost their best friend
in the U. s. Senate. He is sure that Logan
would not have favored Senator Sherman's
| proposition to grant arrears only to those who
suffered amputations. The writer speaks with
great earnestnesS of the duty devolVing on
/ Congress to do justice to the soldiers.
| ID. l.. Wilson, Bonaparte, Iowa, in answer tC
/ Comrade Boyer, gives what he believes TO be
very eOgent reasons why the ex-prisOners oil
war are entitled to pensions by reason of the
/ great sufferngs and hardships they endured
and by which their health was destroyed.